365 baked apple recipes

A lighter banana cake topped with cinnamon-sugar apple slices, made moist with mashed banana, yogurt, and honey instead of heaps of butter. The go-to recipe for using up your fall apple harvest.

Sugar-free granola cookies sweetened entirely with apple juice concentrate and applesauce, loaded with oats, nuts, and dried fruit.

Cider apple cake: a sheet cake layered with thin-sliced apples and a cinnamon-pecan-sugar streusel, built on a batter moistened with dry apple cider. Autumn on a plate.

Alsatian apple cake with four pounds of Golden Delicious apples, honey, rum, and a caramelized egg-butter-brown sugar topping. A rustic French apple dessert.

Moist, spiced fruit cake loaves sweetened naturally with boiled raisins and unsweetened applesauce, plus just a touch of liquid sweetener. Warm cinnamon and nutmeg fill every slice. A diabetic-friendly take on a holiday classic.

The perfect muffins for when you don't have time to sit down and enjoy a hearty breakfast.

Swedish apple pie with no bottom crust, just a self-forming buttery cake-like topping over diced apples and nuts. One-bowl dessert ready in under an hour.

Apple cinnamon cake built on a buttermilk and whole wheat batter, topped with thinly sliced apples and cinnamon sugar. Lighter than a butter-heavy cake, with a tender crumb and warm spice.

Grandma Hilda's apple pie: an old-world sheet-pan apple pie with a tender egg-rich dough, piled with grated apples, brown sugar, and a cinnamon-sugar crust on top.

Apple topped cake with whole wheat flour, honey, egg whites, and yogurt in the batter, crowned with sliced apples and a cinnamon-sugar drizzle. A lighter bake.

This is a great cake to serve with hot spicy cider. It is moist, fruity and sparkled with spices. It is an especially fine choice as a gift fromyour kitchen during the holiday times.

German apple cake made with baking mix, sliced apples, and a brown sugar cinnamon streusel topping. A simple one-bowl cake with tender fruit and a crumbly, spiced crust.

Sourdough dried apple cakes baked in a spiced brown sugar-apple syrup. Rolled pinwheels with rehydrated apples inside, swimming in a cinnamon-nutmeg caramel.

Although this dessert is called a cake, the consistency is more similar to that of a pie.

Made this apple cake a while ago, and finally got the photos uploaded. The cake was moist and delicious. I used half whole wheat flour and half all-purpose flour to make it a bit healthier, reduced sugar to 1 1/2 cups, which was sweet enough for us. Also added 1/2 cup chopped pecans to the apples, and it was a great addition.

Classic German apple kuchen with a tender lemon-scented shortbread crust, apple and golden raisin filling spiced with cinnamon, and a lattice top dusted with powdered sugar. A traditional homestyle dessert bar.